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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

WH 403

Text Information

Siglum
WH 403
Transliteration
l ḫld bn mʿḍ {w} dṯʾ w{ḥ}d
Translation
By Ḫld son of Mʿḍ {and} he spent the season of the later rains {alone}

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
WH 403: l ḫld bn mʿll dṯʾ w{ḥ}d. MNH p. 341 n. 243: on dṯʾ wḥd.

Original Reading Credit
OCIANA

  • Winnett, F.V. & Harding, G.L. Inscriptions from Fifty Safaitic Cairns. (Near and Middle East Series, 9). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1978.
  • Macdonald, M.C.A. Nomads and the Ḥawrān in the late Hellenistic and Roman periods: A reassessment of the epigraphic evidence. Syria 70, 1993: 303-413. [Reprinted with the same pagination, plus addenda and corrigenda as Article II in M.C.A. Macdonald, Literacy and Identity in Pre-Islamic Arabia, (Variorum Collected Studies Series no. 906), Farnham: Ashgate, 2009].
Site
WH Cairn 9A, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
1958–1959
Current Location
Rockfeller Museum
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0011168
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